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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Questions Answered.

G. a. P, BRowNINGTON.-40 our are
entitled to pension on the disability you
contracted in your first service the same
as you would be had you not re-enlisted.
Z. G. D., CONCORD, N. H.--If you
are the widow of a soldier who was
pensioned for wounds received in the
United States service and your husband
died of consumption, in order for you
to be entitled to a pension you must
show that the consumption was con-
tracted while he was in the army or
that it resulted from the wounds for
which he was pensioned.
r.. d., MoNTPELIER.-Thi soldier
says he was pensioner for about
twenty years, when his pension was
taken from him, and he has been sup
ported by the town of Montpelier for
about three years. He says that prior
to his removal to Montpelier he had
resided in Middlesex nearly long
enough to gain legal settlement there
under the old law, and by the new pau
per law, passed at the last session of
the legislature, he had lived there more
than the period of time required to
gain residence in MiddleseX. He is
now told that he belongs to Middlesex
and that steps will soon be taken to
move him to that town. He desires tC
know if MiddleseX is liable for his sup.
port. AnsWer-No; the act of Novem
Der, 1886, took effect from its passage
and cannot change a liability created
by the old law prior to its passage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
The Only Son Of a King.

OF all the strange characters whom |
saw or met in early years, the one who
interested me most was the Rev. Flea
gar Williams, missionary to the st.
Regis Indians, in the northern part of
the state He was not claimant, and
yet he believed himself to be the son
of Louis XIV. of France. As / saw
him in the chancel of st. Johns chapel,
in his surplce, with black velvet cap
on his head, he looked all that he
claimed to be; as he wrote his auto
graph for me afterwards he looked
every inch king" | had hoped he
would write his royal autograph. " No,
my son." he replied, -" 1 am only mis-
sionary now, though kings son." He
had no doubt as to his royal birth;
have never had any concerning him.
Prince de Joinville and other dignita-
ries of the French kingdom had gone
to him to get him to sign off claims that
he had never made, and he refused. He
would not sell his birthright and he did
not want to wear crown. That was
kinglness. No mere claimant would
be thus royal in his humility. Mr..
Williams was present at a reception at
DR.. Wainwright's residence in Hubert
street, ana young student OF ulVlnlty
who had never heard of him had been
looking at some rare portraits of the
royal family of France which happened
to be on the walls. Suddenly he turned
to fellow-student and said: 50 See, one
of those old Bourbons has stepped out
of his frame and is walking around
here" The living portrait was per-
feet fac sinlile. Both young men were
greatly astonished when, later in the
evening, they learned the strange story
of the kingly guest. For brief while
Mr. Williams was lionized in New
York and was made the subject of a
widespread inquiry" Have we Bour-
bon among us?" But, unfortunately
for himself, he did not assert his royalty
conspicuously, and merely asked money
from the churches to sustain his mis-
sion, and so interest in his identity died
out. He returned quietly to his work
and died few years afterwards among
the people to whom he had given his
life. That the son of king of France
should become Protestant missionary
in the American republic is a fight be-
yond the ordinary ether of fiction. Yet
he believed it, and so do l." FeHr
Oldboy," IN Erening Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Wh0 Are Entitled to Pension.

All officers and soldiers disabled in
consequence of their military service,
whether from wounds, injuries or dis
ease, are still entitled to pension at
rates from 81 month for disability
from loss of little finger to S72 for total
blindness. Although the disabilities
OF many, like a eweler or minister,
may not interfere materially with their
ability to gain livelihood, yet they are
entitled to pension as though they were
" hewers of wood and drawers of
water" dependent upon their labor for
a support. Soldiers not suffering from
the identical diseases they contracted
IN the army may be entitled to pension
for diseases resulting from the army
malades. For instance, a soldier may
have had chronic diarrhnain the service
and now be entirely free from diarrhGa,
but suffering from hemorrhoids or piles.
BY proving that he now has piles and
that he contracted chronic diarrhGa in
the army he establishes his right to
a pension, for the pension office
recognizes direct affinity between the
two diseases---that piles is direct path
illogical sequence of chronic diarrhea
whereas consumption is sequence Of
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dence of the archbishop, old banks
and scores of houses of historic celeb
rity, it is city of the past and specially
interesting in its picturesque decay.
Beyond this, eastward and northward,
extend interminabe streets of small
houses, with now and then fowery
court or pretty rose-garden, occupied
mainly by people of French and Span
ish descent. The African pcrvades all
parts of the town except the new resi-
dence portion of the American quarter.
This, which occupies the vast area in
the bend of the river west of the bust
ness blocks as far as Carrollton, is in
character great village rather than a
city. Not all its broad avenues and
handsome streets are paved (and those
that are not are in some seasons inn
passable), its houses are nearly all of
wood, most of them detached, with plots
of ground and gardens, and as the quar-
ter is very well shaded the effect is
bright and agreeable. In it are many
stately residences, occupying a square
or half square and empowered in TO-
liage and flowers. Care has been given
lately TO turf-culture, and one sees here
thick-set and handsome lawns. The
broad Esplanade street, with its elegant
old-fashioned houses and double rows
of shade trees, which has long been the
rural pride of the French quarter, has
no rivals in responsibility and style
on the American side.-Hdrper' Nigga
! zine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
The Victims of Wall Street.

The plaintive bleat of the lamb is
loud in the land, and his golden fleece,
as so often before, yet again adorns the
ursine altar. One can but sympathize
when misfortune comes upon ones
fellows. But one tires of perennially
putting ones handkerchief to ones
eyes and squeezing briny tears out of
reservoirs well-nigh wrung dry season
after season. And with all the iniq-
uitous laws that have been put upon us,
| know of none compelling one to buy
stocks or put up his pocket-money as
margin with a broker. When the mer-
chant leaves his counter, the carpenter
his bench, the preacher his pulpit, the
seamstress her needle, to "take flyer
in the street," it is of his or her own
volitiOn alone. Each knows it to be a
perilous business; not one of them VEN
lures for sweet charity's sake-the
hope of gain alone impels. The idea
is to buy few shares of something
no matter what, no matter whether it
intrinsically be worth anything or moth
ing-hold it little while and then sell
out to some one else at a profit. That
loss must come upon some one in the
end all know, but no one intends to be
that particular one-the last man in.
When the collapse comes, as it certainly
will, we will have skipped and some
one else will be standing in the door.
Milo did not intend to be caught when
he put his fingers into the cleft of that
tempting piece of oak, but he was.
The immortality of the thing is that
each one who goes into this thing goes
in with the avowed intention of cum
ningly slipping out and leaving some
one else to suffer. And since some
one must in the end be left holding
the bag, why not you, my good sir, as
well as any other? This perhaps ex-
plains the reason why, amid all the
noble charities that the philanthropy of
the age has seen fit to found, no asylum
has yet been provided for the shorn
and Impoverished lamb. If the wind
be tempered to him, it is by the mercy
of Providence alone, and human or hui
name agencies have nothing to do
with it. . Goodbye, friend" said the
coon to the fox Wen meet at the
hatter's." Sooner or later, be they
never so cunning, they generally do.
Even the wariest are trapped!-John
Paul.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
General Logan.

No Drawer soldier followed the flag
of the Union during the civil war than
John A. Logan. No more honest and
incorruptible man has had place in
our national congress than John A.
Logan. No truer friend to the men
who wore the blue, whether as officers
or as private soldiers, ever lived than
John A. Logan. He was a strong par
tisan, but he was stronger patriot,
and he attested his patriotism by parting
company with former political alliances
and giving the heartiest possible sup
port to President Lincoln and the
United States government in the dark
days of 1861. The country can hardly
measure to-day the debt of gratitude
that is due to men like Douglas, Stan
ion, Grant, Sherman and Logan, who
had been democrats, but who were
patriots, and when they had to choose
between party and country did not hes
itate to choose the latter. When the
government was in danger Logan did
not stop to reckon the chances of sue
cess, but simply said: "This govern
ment is worth fighting for and saving,
and give my life to that work" Since
the war he has boldly advocated and
voted for those things that tended to
maintain and keep all that had been
achieved by the war, so it might never
be said that the war was fought in
vain. lIe everywhere defended the
honor of the men who served in the
Union army. He was the first COM
mander of the Grand Army of the Re
public and was the first one to inaugu-
he ;o1 in, Al &c
country. He introduced and advocated
more bills for pensions and bounties to
soldiers having merit in them than any
man in congress. In General IOgan's
last public speech, delivered at a sol
diers' campfire in Youngstown, Ohio,
November is, he said: 81 am often
accused of saying things that policy
would dictate should not be said, but
don't care as long as | am right. | be-
lieve in pensioning every soldier now
living who entered the service, either
for a long OF short term, who was
wounded in the service or who con-
tracted disease, or has since, through
no fault of his own, become disabled.
| believe in pensioning every soldier
who has arrived at the age of siXty-two.
Pass that kind of law and justice
would be done. Some may say it is
too much. No, it is not. This coun-
try can never pay the debt it owes the
gallant men who went out in her de.
fence at time when the very life of
the nation was assailed." Genera
Logan visited Vermont in October
1855, and delivered memorial sd
dress on General Grant at st. Johns.
bury to aid the Grand Army in its eff
forts to increase its charity fund. He
came for that express purpose, but re.
fused to accept any pay, even his
expenses. He died poor, but the large
subscription already received for thai
purpose will maintain his family with
out the pension that congress is sure tC
grant his widow
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Soldiers &uoget.
Pensions Granted.


To Nathan Wheeler, Gouldsville, Sl2
month and $40 arrears; Stephen ID.
Blake, guardian for children of Will
lam Goodell, deceased, SIS month and
1850 arrears; William II. Chaplin, North
Montpelier, "a month and SS5 arrears
Alonzo J. Douglass, Morrisyille, 50 a
month and s44 arrears; Nielsen John
son, Orange, SO a month and $50 ar
rears; Curtis b. Whitney, Orange, an
increase from 80 to "a month and
$40 arrears; M. G. Vance, Groton, "
a month and 1913 arrears; John Whip
pie. Eden, an increase from S6 to $l2 a
month, granted after an appeal to the
secretary of the interior; Stephen Put
nam, Jr., Boltonville, an increase from
So to SIG a month; Israel b. Clark
Gouldsville, an increase from S28 tC
$50 a month and Sl32 arrears, granted
on an appeal to the secretary of the in
terror; Gel M. Town, Barre, an increase
from "a to So month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Catarrh to Consumption.

Catarrh in its destructive force stands next to and
undoubtedly leads on to consumption. 1T is there
fore singular that those AFFLICTED with this fearful
disease should not make II the object Of their lives
to rid themselves of it. Deceptive remedies con
cocted by ignorant pretenders to medical knowledge
have weakened the confidence of the great ma jorty
of sufferers in all advertised remedies. They be-
come resigned to life of misery rather than tor
ture themselves with doubtful palliatves.
But this will never do Catarrh must be met at
every stage and combated with all our might. In
many cases the disease has assumed dangerous
symptoms. The bones and cartilage of the nose,
the organs of hearing, of seeing and of tasting so
affected to be useless, the uvula elongated the
throat iniamed and irritated to produce con.
slant and distressing cough
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase of
Catarrh, from simple head cold to the most oath-
and destructive stages. 1t is local and const
tutona. Instant in relieving, permanent in curing,
safe economical and never-fang.
Each package contains one bottle of the RADICAL
CURE, one box CATARRHAL SOLVENT and an M
PROVED INHALER, with treatise; 81.
POTTER DRUG CHEMICAL Co. BOSTON.
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advertisements.
GEN. LOGAN,s SUDDEN DEATH

Is great shock TO the nation. Few knew
that he was even indisposed when the news
Of his death flashed over the wires and
thousands of people stood aghast at the
sudden change from health and vigor to
cold and silent death. For the past twenty
five years there has been no man more
constantly before the public than General
John A. Logan. Through all his career
he has been noted for his fearlessness and
purity OF character both in public and pri-
vate life. Loved by friends and respected
by enemies, he will be mourned by all.
His death adds another to the long list
of victims to sudden and acute rheuma-
tism. Probably no disease is so common
as rheumatism, none is more sudden or
dangerous, and there is certainly none
which so completely battles medical skill.
Only one remedy has yet been discovered
which is a sure and safe cure for rheumatism
and its twin disease, neuralgia, and that is
Athlophoros. In thousands of cases Athlo-
phoros has proved quick and certain cure
for these diseases. In connection with
Athlophoros Pills it has never yet failed to
speedily effect cure.
In all probability many deaths attributed
to heart disease are caused by these terrible
diseases, which are far more dangerous
than is generally considered.
! rheumatism even though in a very mild
form, is extremely dangerous, for it is liable
at any moment to go to the heart and cause
! instant death. Why trifie with disease SC
fatal when a certain cure can be obtained OF
any druggist?
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athophoros Pills, but where they
cannot be bought of the druggist the Athlo
phoros Co., 112 Wall street, New York, will
send either Carriage paid on receipt o
regular price, which is S1.00 per bottle fol
Athlophoros and 80 cents for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, indiges
ton, weakness, nervous debility diseases OF women
constipation headache, impure blood etc, AthlC
phoros Pills are unequaled.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
LincOln's Speech on the Battle
Ground OF Gettysburg,

Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent
IA new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long
endure. We are met on great battle
field of that war. We have come to
dedicate portion of that field as final
resting-place for those who here gave
their lives that nation might live. 1t
is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this. But, in larger sense,
we cannot dedicate, we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here have consecrated it far
above, our power to add or detract. The
world will little note nor long remem-
Der what we say here; but it can never
forget what they did here. 1t is for, us
the living, rather to be dedicated here
TO the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly adj
vanced. is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us; that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion TO the
cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain; that this nation, un-
der God, shall have new birth of free
dom, and that the government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie shall not perish from the earth.
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Select Nlistellamp.
They Are All Gone.

They are all gone into the world of light
And alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth cheer.
II glows and gtters in my cloudy breast,
Like stars upon some gloomy grove,
Or those faint beams in which this hill is dressed
After the suns remove.
see them walking in an air of glory,
Whose light doth trample my days
MY days, which are at best but duh and hoary,
Mere glimmerings and decays.
oh, holy hopel and high humility
High as the heavens abovel
These are your walks, and you have showed them
To kndle my cold love.
Dear beauteous death-the jewel of the just
Shining nowhere but in the dark!
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust
Could man outlook that mark
He that hath found some hedged birds nest may
know
At first sight II the bird be flown;
But what fair dell or grove he sings in now,
That is to him unknown.
And yet as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So strange thoughts transcend our wonted
themes,
And into glory peep.
II a star were confined into tomb
Her captive flames must needs burn there;
But when the hand that locked her up gives room
She'll shine through all the sphere.
o Father of eternal life, and all
Created glories under thee!
Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall
Into true liberty
| Either dispense these mists which blot and fill
! My perspective still as they pass,
| Or else remove me hence unto that hill
Where shall need no glass.
| --Heuru Vgy0baD. 1851 I-l6q5,
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Ha1Ps Catarrh Cure.

There is more catarrh in this sec
ton of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur
able. For great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing 10 cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney Il Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure now on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from ten drops to tea-spoonful. 1t
acts directly upon the blood and mucus
surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. send for circular and testimo-
mails. Address,
r. J. CHENEY 81 CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
ca Sold by druggists, seventy-fve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05

DAYS HORSE POWDER is sure pre-
ventive of hog cholera, and cures cough
and measles.
To mothers: Should the baby be
suffering with. collie use DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup at once. Twenty-Five cents.
DIR. BULLS BALTIMORE PILLS should
be taken at once as the best preventive
of bilious affections.
SWEET as May showers, DreXel's Bell
Cologne.
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DRUGGISTS ENDORSE THEM.

Have sold a quantity of your CuTICURA RENE
DIES. One of my customers Mrs. Henry KNIT, who
had letter her hands to such extent Ms to cause
the skin to peel of and for eight years she suffered
greatly, was completely cured by the use OF your
medicines.
C.N. NYE, Druggist, Canton, ohio.
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A COMPLETE CURE.

| have suffered all my life with skin diseases OF
different kinds and have never found permanent re
lief until, by the advice of lady friend used YOUR
valuable CUTICURA REMEDIES | gave them h'
thorough trial, using six bottles of the CUrICuRA
REsoLvENr, two boxes of CUT1CURA and seven
cakes of CuT1CUBA SOAP, and the result was Just
what had been told it would BED complete cure.
BELLE WADE, Richmond, Va.
Reference, q. w. Latimer, Druggist, Richmond, Va.
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ITCHING. SCALy, PIMpLY,

For the last year have had a species Of itching,
scaly and piinpy humors my face, to which have
applied great many methods of treatment without
success and which was speedily and entirely cured
by CUTpCUTtA.
Mrs. ISAAC PHELPS, Ravenua, o.
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advertisements.
SKIN : SCALP
Cleansed, Purified and Beautified
by the Cuticura Remedies.

For cleansing the skin and Scalp of Designating
Humors, for allaying Itching, Burning and lnflam
nation for curing the first symptoms of Eczema,
Psoriasis, Milk Crust, Scaly Head, Scrofula and
other inherited Skin and Blood Diseases, CUT1CURA,
the great Skin cure, and CuTICURA SOAR, an ex-
quisite Skin beautiher, externally, and CUTICuRA
REsoLyENT, the new Blood Purifier, internally are
infallible.
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SALT RHEUM CURED.

was troubled with Salt Rheum for q number of
years, that the skin entirely came OIL one OF my
hands from the finger tips to the wrist. tried rem
edes and doctors prescriptions to no purpose until
commence ed taking CUTICURA REMEDIES, and no"
| am entirely cured
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No MEDICINE LIKE THEM

We have sold your CUTICURA REMEDIES for tn
last six years, and no medicines shelves Civ
better satisfaction.
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GET the best. DR.. Soule's Pills are
the best for all liver and bilious de-
rangement.
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CUTICURL, fifty cents; REsoLvENT, SlgO; SOAR,
twenty-five cents. Prepared by the POTTER DRUG
AND CHEMICAL Co.. Boston, Mass, Send for
How to Cure Skin Diseases"
CDTDC Pimples, Skin Blemishes and Baby
Uht Do. Humors cured by CUTICURA
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Nor like others. Hop PloSters are
pain-allaying and strengthening, Used
by multitudes.
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THE huge, drastic, gripping, sickening
pills are fast being superseded by DR..
Pierce's " Purgative Pellets"
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TIE Indian smokes his pipe of peace
the white man the piece of pipe.
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EXPERIENCE has very poor men,
DRY, and true charity none at all.
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THE greatest wealth is contentment
with little.